Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives from both sides of the political aisle have expressed concerns about China exploiting US research, but have diverged on how to protect the country's research and fund it. The worries, voiced at a hearing on Capitol Hill on 15 July, follow an announcement by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) a week earlier that it would ban collaborations between US scientists that it funds and international institutions that the federal government considers dangerous to national security ' including many leading Chinese universities. John Moolenaar ' a Republican from Michigan and chair of the House Select Committee on China, which scheduled the hearing ' praised the NSF's policy and called for officials from other US science agencies who were testifying at the session to adopt the same prohibition. 'Should American taxpayer dollars be used for research with entities within China's defence-research and military'industrial base' The common-sense...
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